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Brasserie Lancelot, a Breton brewery with seven natural beers named after local legends.
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Crepe number one: egg crepe with a country sausage at Le Petit Malouin.
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Bretagne also has pastries native to the region, which are really brilliant. Lots of custard - great!
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The Kouign Amann is a butter cake of alternating brioche dough, butter and sugar, like pudding croissant.
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Nutella all over the kouign amann.
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Intra Muros, the walled section of Saint-Malo's old town, is ringed by ramparts.
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An Indian summer that settled over northern France meant that everyone had one last shot at beach time even in early October.
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Plage de Bon Secours in Saint-Malo.
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Looking out to the English Channel.
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The Grand Be islet is where the French writer Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand is buried, only accessible at low tide.
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La vie est la plage!
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Plage de Bon Secours has a walled in bathing area where you can swim or take a dive.
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High flyers!
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You can kayak.
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The seagull - best alarm clock ever.
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The tower of Chateau de Saint-Malo, which we kind of wanted to go to the top of, but couldn't find the entrance to.
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Parts of the chateau now house civic offices.
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Fort National is another historic site only accessible when the tide is down.
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The fog rolled in pretty quickly - before we knew it, the sunshine was gone.
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La Brigitaine, around the corner from the hotel and where I fell in love with the andouille Guemene, a sausage made from pig's stomach.
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My Dominique crepe getting flambeed - it's also filled with frangipane and topped with grilled almonds.
